Today Quotes
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.Niels Bohr
The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame.Chuq Von Rospach
It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file.unattributed truth from r.g.frp
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?Jane Austen
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.Mark Leeper
network: anything reticulated or decussated, with interstices between the intersectionsfrom the Dictionary of Samuel Johnson
There is nothing more practical than a good theory.Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, quoted in V Rich, Nature, 1977, 270, pp470-1
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.M. C. Escher
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.von Weizsacker
Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra"